“I have heard it said more than once that while no pilots will admit to it “Top Gun” is one of their hokey “secret pleasures”
I believe it.....never live that down and would hear about it forever.
Kinda like nobody admits they like ABBA but many do. LOL!
So true. When I was a teenager, as a guy, you couldn’t admit you liked the Carpenters...:)
Your Man-Card would be forcibly removed from your person.
Theres no question it was a pro-armed forces propaganda piece for us. lets just be honest. 1986, and ussr and china and norks and iran...
but it was hokey and parts were unbelievable.
Basically how a pilot who left top gun after gettin his WO killed, gets to come back and finish, then gets an elite deployment on a carrier who just happens to be in a conflict zone, and the first thing they do is send the brand new guy up over all other pilots onboard, and he somehow kills a bunch of bogeys and saves the best guy in the top gun class who also happens to be flying the other plane they sent up...?
ABBA ... Yeah. Basic feel-good music.